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To learn more about cancer survivorship research at Sylvester, please call 305-243-3329 or
email Survivorship Research.
Current Sylvester Survivorship Research Studies
Sylvester offers a wide range of survivorship research studies that encompass survivorship research, spanning from biological mechanisms. Current survivorship studies include:
Has cancer left you missing that special connection with your partner – or are you worried that it will? Strengthen your relationship today!
The 8-hour online Together After Cancer program helps Latina breast cancer survivors and their partners support each other, enhance intimacy, and communicate better. You and your partner will also have up to five, 20-minute calls with a coach to help you apply what you’ve learned to your own relationship.
Coaches are available for daytime, evening, and weekend calls. Visit www.TogetherAfterCancer.com, email togetheraftercancer@miami.edu, or call (305) 284-8288 for more information. Services available in English and Spanish.
Changes in Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms for Aging, Immunity, Metabolism, and Health After Stress Management Intervention in Older Overweight/Obese Breast Cancer Survivors
The purpose of the study is to test the effects of videoconferenced cognitive behavioral stress management on Cancer Accelerated aging measure by immune cell senescence, and to associate these changes with anti-viral immunity and long-term physical and mental health outcomes in older distressed breast cancer patients.
Please contact dperdomo@med.miami.edu for more information.
Prolonged Overnight Fasting and/or Exercise on Fatigue and Other Patient Reported Outcomes in Women with Hormone Receptor Positive Advanced Breast Cancer
FastER, an NCI-funded R01, will investigate the effects of prolonged overnight fasting and exercise on cancer-related fatigue in advanced/metastatic breast cancer patients starting CDk4/6 inhibitors. This is a collaboration with Dana-Farber.
To refer patients please contact:
Please contact ccalfa@med.miami.edu for more information.
Equipping Cancer Patients and Providers for Preparedness (ECuiPPP): A Cross-Sectional Survey of Disaster Preparedness among Cancer Patients
The Equipping Cancer Patients and Providers for Preparedness (ECuiPPP): A Cross-Sectional Survey of Disaster Preparedness among Cancer Patients study plans to develop a “toolkit” of useful resources to support patients with cancer to better plan for possible disasters in the South Florida area and to recover quickly if a disaster strikes. This includes helping patients with cancer, and their care systems, minimize any disruptions in their cancer care. The study is starting with a survey of 250 patients receiving care at Sylvester intended to find out more about how patients with cancer are preparing for possible disasters and how they are adapting and coping when disasters occur.
Please contact g.freylersythe@med.miami.edu for more information.
Facilitating Adjustment to Medical Illness in Your Family
The goals of the FAMILY lab, directed by Dr. Youngmee Kim, are to examine the psychosocial, physical, and spiritual impact of cancer on the family and develop programs and services to assist families in meeting their needs.
- Investigate psychosocial and biobehavioral mechanisms of impact of cancer linking to the health of the patients and their family members/caregivers.
- Promote healthy lifestyle behaviors among cancer survivors and their family and friends.
Visit the Family Lab website for more information.
Con Carino Abuelita
The study focuses on developing and evaluating a web and mobile device-delivered (eHealth) intervention known as “Con Cariño, Abuelita” (With Love, Grandma) for Hispanic female cancer survivors and their adult daughters to improve their lifestyle behaviors.
Please contact vpavia@miami.edu for more information.
Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy to Meet Palliative Care Needs of Cancer Caregivers
The goal of this multisite clinical trial is to evaluate the efficacy of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Caregivers (MCP-C) as compared to Supportive Psychotherapy for Caregivers in improving sense of meaning in life and psychosocial adjustment in caregivers of patients with advanced cancer. Bereavement outcomes will also be examined.
Please contact wendy.lichtenthal@miami.edu for more information.
Meaning-Centered Grief Therapy for Parents Bereaved by Cancer: A Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial
The goal of this multisite, mixed methods randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the efficacy of Meaning-Centered Grief Therapy in reducing prolonged grief and depression symptoms and in improving other psychosocial outcomes such as meaning in life in parents bereaved by cancer.
Please contact wendy.lichtenthal@miami.edu for more information.
Comparative Effectiveness of Lifestyle Interventions for Older Cancer Survivors and Their Caregivers
PCORI-funded project with Dana-Farber, “Vitality” will compare virtually supervised versus remote monitored diet and exercise interventions on cognitive and physical function in overweight, >65 years cancer survivors and their >65 years caregivers.
Please contact g.freylersythe@med.miami.edu for more information.
Do you have colorectal cancer? Is a family member or friend taking care of you?
Cancer patients and family caregivers tend to experience similar levels of stress. Each person’s emotions affect the other person psychologically and physically. This project will examine how each person’s cancer experience has an independent effect on the other person’s quality of life.
For more information, please contact us at umfamily@miami.edu.
Dyadic affective and neuroendocrine processes of adjustment to cancer.
This study is to examine affective and neuroendocrine patterns of dyadic stress regulation between cancer patients and their caregivers, and to test the patterns of coregulation and coagitation as predictors of daily and interim health outcomes.
Please contact ykim@miami.edu for more information.
Are you a Hispanic cancer survivor? Join our study “Avanzando Caminos (Leading Pathways)" to understand different factors which can contribute to cancer survivorship.
The purpose of this research is to understand how different factors (e.g. social, cultural, psychosocial, medical, biological) contribute to Hispanic/Latino cancer survivors’ outcomes including symptoms after treatment and quality of life.
The Role of Prenatal Exposures to Specific Ethnicity on Childhood Cancer Disparities in Florida
This study aims to investigate racial and ethnic disparities among pediatric oncology patients in Florida through the exploration of cancer patterns by detailed race-ethnicity, associations with maternal diabetes and maternal smoking, and survival based on sociodemographics including detailed race-ethnicity.
For more information please contact: hmc110@miami.edu
Firefighter Cancer Survivorship Program
The purpose of this study is for investigators to developing cancer survivorship education modules, including videos, for cancer survivors. If you have questions about this study, please contact Dr. Natasha Schaefer Solle:
By email: n.schaefer@umiami.edu
St. George Lab: Health eLifestyles Programs
Directed by Dr. Sara St. George, the Health eLifestyles Programs Laboratory focuses on developing, evaluating and disseminating theoretically-based, web and mobile device-delivered (eHealth) obesity prevention interventions for ethnic minority populations to improve their healthy lifestyle behaviors. We are currently developing three interventions:
- Family-based eHealth obesity prevention intervention for Hispanic adolescents and their parents
- Multigenerational eHealth intervention for female cancer survivors in the obese/overweight range and their children and grandchildren
- Multigenerational eHealth intervention for increasing physical activity in grandparents and their grandchildren
Visit the St. George Lab / Health eLifestyles Programs for more information.
Crane Lab: Nutrition and Excersice for Cancer Survivors
Dr. Crane’s research is oriented around nutrition and exercise for cancer survivors to improve health outcomes, quality of life and more. More about her research and team at the Cancer Research – Advancing with Nutrition and Exercise (CRANE) Lab can be found at CraneResearchLab.org.
Targeted Navigation to Achieve Health Equity: Increasing Access to Care, Patient Engagement and Research Participation
The purpose of this study is to create a program that helps high-risk patients to navigate the health care system and provides extra support to the patients who need it most. Patients will have their needs met more effectively by building a relationship between the patient and navigator.
For more information, please contact ddp2009@med.miami.edu.
Families And Lung Cancer Outcomes Network (FALCON) Study
This project is aiming to better understand the relationship between ethnicity and lung cancer health outcomes. The study is an observational study in which lung cancer patients will be enrolled through different cancer center sites across the Unites States and will be asked to complete several questionnaires (participant self-report).
To learn more please contact:
Aaron Riffa at FALCON@med.miami.edu
Blood Cancer and Access to Care
The Leukemia and Lymphoma Access to Care (LyLAC) Study is a Leukemia & Lymphoma Society-sponsored study for patients with a current diagnosis or relapse of leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), or myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) at the University of Miami, the University of Chicago, and the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Some blood cancer patients face social, economic, and environmental disadvantages that stand in the way of being able to get the treatment and care they need. Over the course of 6 months, this study will explore the effects of enhanced supportive services on patients with blood cancer.
For more information, please contact us at:
By Phone: 305-243-8538 or 305-243-9642
By email: lylac.study@miami.edu
eHealth Mindfulness-based Music Therapy Intervention for Patients Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
This study is a National Cancer Institute sponsored study for the purpose of assisting us to make improvements to an online mindfulness-based music therapy (eMBMT) and mindfulness meditation (eMM) programs for patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation. Specifically, we are asking for feedback on these two programs through focus groups and individual sessions. In the future, a randomized controlled trial will be conducted upon completing the first phase.
For more information, please contact us at:
By Phone: 786-656-1502
By email: aeb178@med.miami.edu
Lifestyle Intervention of Food and Exercise for Lymphoma Survivors (LIFE-L)
This study is a pilot to explore the effect of the Mediterranean diet and a supervised home exercise program during chemotherapy for lymphoma patients to improve chemotherapy completion and quality of life, enrolling at SCCC.
For more information, please contact mlopez-pentecost@miami.edu or g.freylersythe@med.miami.edu
SCOPE – Leukemia
Multi-site randomized controlled trial of inpatient palliative care patients with high-risk leukemia.
Please contact ltraeger@miami.edu for more information.
Precise Oncologic Interventions in Nutrition and Training (OnPOINT)
This study will develop and test a clinical risk/complexity stratification algorithm and stratification-specific, tiered care delivery strategies among breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer patients at SCCC.
Please contact g.freylersythe@med.miami.edu for more information.
Managing Symptoms and Psychological Distress During Oral Anti-Cancer Treatment
NRG-CC012CD is an NCI-funded R01 with support of NRG Cancer Care Cancer Delivery committee is an implementation study that will use a remote telephone symptom monitoring system for any cancer patient receiving oral chemotherapy at enrolled NCORP sites. Intervention will offer enhanced symptom support plus a psychosocial intervention for patients reporting symptoms around depression/anxiety.
Please contact g.freylersythe@med.miami.edu for more information.
Fostering Oral Chemotherapy Understanding and Safety (FOCUS)
This study hopes to enhance adherence to oral chemotherapy through the use of the EveryDose© mobile application.
Please contact Aaron Riffa at axr2991@med.miami.edu for more information.
Ovarian Cancer and Treatment-Related Symptoms
The Trial of Exercise and Lifestyle (TEAL) Study is a National Cancer Institute-sponsored study for newly diagnosed ovarian cancer survivors at University of Miami and Yale University. Many ovarian cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy experience symptoms due to chemotherapy toxicities that can lead to a decrease or delay in treatments. This study will explore the effects of an 18-week medical nutrition and exercise therapy program during chemotherapy for ovarian cancer patients to improve chemotherapy completion and quality of life.
For more information, please contact us at:
By Phone: 305-243-9832
By email: g.freylersythe@med.miami.edu
Partnering with Community Health Workers to Increase Advance Care Planning Among Black and Hispanic/Latina Women with Cancer
The goal of this study is to address cancer burden by increasing advance care planning by partnering with community health workers (CHWs) to support and empower Black and Hispanic/Latina women with breast or gynecologic cancer.
For more information, please contact us at:
By Phone: 305-243-9642
By email: m.pons1@umiami.edu
ehealth Psychosocial Symptom Management Intervention for Pancreatic Cancer Patients
The Pancreatic Cancer and Quality of Life Study evaluates an eHealth intervention designed to improve quality of life and reduce the symptoms associate with pancreatic cancer. This study is made up of two phases. Phase one includes a focus group designed to learn more about the unmet needs’ pancreatic cancer survivors face before and after treatment. Phase two examines the effects of a 10-week online stress management intervention, both before and after completing primary treatment of pancreatic cancer.
For more information, please contact us at:
Sara E. Fleszar-Pavlovic at sarafleszarpavlovic@med.miami.edu
PROSPECT Study
The purpose of this study is to understand symptom burden in prostate cancer survivors and what factors (for example, treatment, genetic, demographic) impact their quality of life.
For more information, please contact pgonzalez@med.miami.edu.
My Wellbeing Guide
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of My Cancer Support, an online tool that provides uniquely tailored educational content and coping strategies to patients experiencing mood changes following their diagnosis with cancer. The results of the study may help enhance the quality of life of cancer patients.
For more information please contact: mywellbeingguide@med.miami.edu or carlosasilvera@med.miami.edu
SHIFT Sexual Health Study
Multi-site randomized controlled trial of an intervention to enhance sexual health in transplant recipients.
For more information, please contact Johan Euceda at jxe645@med.miami.edu.
Horizons App Study
Pilot feasibility study of a digital health intervention to enhance quality of life in transplant recipients who are coping with chronic graft-versus-host disease.
For more information, please contact Hanna Culang at hxc937@med.miami.edu.
To view more Survivorship-related behavioral research studies, please visit UMiamiHealthResearch.org.
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